His lectures are lively and stimulating and have often been called 'charismatic'. His subjects include 'Changing Perceptions: The Poets and World War One', which is a vivid and illuminating introduction to the poetry of the First World War. You can read some testimonials from schools here.

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My aim as a lecturer is not just to tell my audience about the past, not just to make them think about it, but to make it live again in front of their eyes. A lecture of mine is therefore conceived as not only an intellectual but also a dramatic entertainment.

So I bring to life literary personalities - setting them in their time and their place - and encourage my audience to engage with the human dilemmas of people who previously may have been no more than names on a book cover or at the end of a printed page. And a greater understanding of the writers as human beings usually leads to a deeper appreciation of their work.